As part of the "shaping" of the battlefield, the US military uses tactics like blasting Arabic mess…

That's likely due to US forces working more closely with their Iraqi counterparts. Though US offici…

"Reported civilian deaths from coalition strikes have been rising for some months, but where we're …

But the sheer number of the retrofitted Korean SUVs appearing on Mosul's streets also raises the qu…

The cars, mostly civilian models, had been equipped with thick metal armor and had small windows fo…

The militants implemented an extreme version of Islam which associated toys with a face, like dolls…

In late 2016, a video appeared showing Iraqi soldiers dragging a suspected ISIS fighter along the g…

According to monitoring group Airwars, since the operation to retake Mosul started on October 17, t…

ISIS is currently locked in battle against an array of forces for control of Mosul, the second larg…

"In Aleppo, you have the specific targeting of innocent civilians, first responders, and infrastruc…

Fighting on the ground around Mosul has continued since the operation was launched on October 16, w…

"The smoke covers part of the city Qayyarah, about 35 miles south of the city of Mosul, along the W…

Over the two and a half years of occupation, thousands of rare books and manuscripts were destroyed…

"I know a professor at Mosul University who was caught by the Isis hisbah (religious police) in a r…

ISIS then destroyed the Sheikh Fathi mosque, despite civilians forming a human chain around the sit…

"We only go upstairs to use the toilet. It's been like this for three months, since shells started …

"We are killing those that are hatching those plots. We are killing the leadership of ISIL. We are …

"Americans are again playing an advisor role, an enabler role for these Iraqi forces ... Most of th…

The long-awaited operation to retake Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, from ISIS occupiers got und…

US special forces recently captured ISIS' top chemical weapons chief, Sleiman Daoud al-Afari, forme…